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    <center>Scilab Symbol</center>
    <div align="right">Last update : 13/01/2005</div>
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      <b>dot</b> -  (.)  symbol</p>
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      <font color="blue">Calling Sequence</font>
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        <tt>123.33</tt>
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        <tt>a.*b</tt>
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        <tt>[123,..  </tt>
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      <dd>
        <tt> 456]  </tt>
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      <font color="blue">Description</font>
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        <b>.</b>Dot is used to mark decimal point for numbers : 3.25 and 0.001</dd>
      <dd>
        <b>.&lt;op&gt;</b>used in cunjunction with other operator symbols (<tt>
          <b>* / \ ^ '</b>
        </tt>) to form other operators.  Element-by-element multiplicative operations are obtained using <tt>
          <b> .* , .^ , ./ , .\</b>
        </tt> or <tt>
          <b>.'</b>
        </tt>.  For example, C = A ./ B is the matrix with elements c(i,j) = a(i,j)/b(i,j). Kronecker product is noted .*. .  Note that when dot follows a number it is alway prt of the number so 2.*x is evaluated as 2.0*x and 2 .*x is evaluated as (2).*x</dd>
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        <b>..</b>Continuation.  Two or more decimal points at the end of a line causes the following line to be a continuation.</dd>
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      <font color="blue">Examples</font>
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1.345
x=[1 2 3];x.^2 .*x // a space is required between 2 and dot
[123,..
 456]
 
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      <a href="star.htm">
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          <b>star</b>
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      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="hat.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>hat</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="slash.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>slash</b>
        </tt>
      </a>,&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="backslash.htm">
        <tt>
          <b>backslash</b>
        </tt>
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